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... li> Wow.. more than a day to see all that! ( we only saw three points from that list in five hours!)

A wander along the promenade leads to the replica Statue of Liberty.. so strange to see one here..it was given by Paris to Tokyo, to celebrate the "French Year in Japan" in 1999. There are four copies in total in Japan.. makes a great photo shot!

... the clan became 47 ronin. The story is about how these ronin spend year after year hunting down their masters murderer, and reflects upon the enourmous discipline of the samurais. After revenging their master they commit collective seppuku, and is now buried in the Sengakuji temple we went past yesterday. As sunset colored the blue sky red I grew wearier and decided to go home. Calling it a day at that point seemed like a nice ...

... in my JR pass, but I still had lot of credits on my Passmo card. Just before to reach the pkatform I saw a Moomin café, so I get out of the station and had a look to the shop. There were few goodies, excessively expensive and not interesting for my man. Let's skip this shop, maybe the café itself is more interesting. Catching a train for 1 stop to Asakusa, decided to have again a walk there, it's dark. The view is looking good and did ...

... side streets off Shijo Dori, one of the main thoroughfares, were filled with adults and children sampling the food booths celebrating the festival. Some great street food was to be had. In addition there were game booths for the kids. The whole scene was reminiscent of New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Many of the women and children and some of the men were dressed in traditional kimonos. It was all quite colorful and beautiful. By day the central district was typical of most ...

We began the day by visiting the Senso-Ji temple in Asakusa which is where we had walked about on our first afternoon here. We left the hotel at 8:30 and walked out into brilliant sunshine and a bitingly cold wind. Alan our tour leader, was able to provide the answers to the many questions we had following our previous visit. This is a Buddhist temple and various shrines which was founded in the seventh century when two brothers fished a statue ...